Writer's Block Magazine

The ‘then leave’-Mentality and the Death of American Optimism

January 30, 2023

Whalers, by J. M. W. Turner America, like any place on earth, is problem-riddled, and has been from the start. No matter where we claim that beginning to be; whether it’s the moment Pangea split open and the world unfurled into its current shape, ravenous magma regurgitating up out of cracked tectonic plates; or when…

Can we communicate dreams?

January 25, 2023

by Anouk Roest, Uncategorized

Morris, R. C. (2013, July 26) I have always been a dreamer; both during the day with my teachers yelling at me to pay attention and during the night, where I fly through the sky or run from a herd of elephants. Frequently, I wake up and remember the dream, sometimes clearly ‘scene for scene’,…

Expectations, List-making and New Beginnings.

January 20, 2023

by Léa Vandervorst

Edward Hopper, Lee Shore, 1941 Now that we are getting deeper into winter, I am left with the same feeling as usual. I always feel like December is the nice part of winter. The season is still new, the first frosts are beautiful, Christmas and New Year are still ahead. By mid-January, things tone down…

The Art of Categorizing Creation

December 18, 2022

by Arthur Mulder

Diagrams from Laurence Sterne representing “the lines I moved in through my first, second, third, and fourth volumes.” Part 1: Theory Section I, or Why This Article Has Two Parts, Four Sections, and an Intermission We have been dividing stories into chewable bites for as long as we’ve been telling them. Perhaps most famously with…

Caffeine Curiosities

December 12, 2022

by Laiana Farias

Laiana Farias. July 22, 2022. If you are anything like me (and the majority of the population of the world) you probably consume some amount of caffeine on a daily basis, let it be from a nice cup of coffee or tea or any other caffeine-containing substance. As a coffee lover, I am guilty of…